Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Program Pilot Act

This bill would create a 6-year Medicare pilot program in which at least 40 selected hospitals provide medically tailored meals delivered to the homes of certain patients after they leave the hospital. Eligible patients must have Medicare Part A, have a diet-related disease such as diabetes, kidney disease, or heart failure, live at home, and have limits in at least two daily living activities. Qualified patients would receive at least 2 meals a day for periods of at least 12 weeks, plus medical nutrition therapy, with no deductibles or copays. The program would be paid for from the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, with matching reductions in payments to certain hospitals, and the Secretary would report evaluations to Congress.

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Sponsors

• Cory A. Booker Democrat sponsor
• 3 cosponsors